Missing the point: Let everybody have their truth

Tuesday

Why is everyone, including the Courier Times, missing the point on Central Bucks teacher Natalie Munroe and the issue over her blog?

Is she within her free speech rights? Of course she is. Does the school district have the right to fire her? Yes it does. They also have an obligation to terminate her.

She now sees herself as a spokeswoman for free speech and education reform. Well, where does the teachers union stand on this, and why have they been silent?

If Munroe feels that a teacher has the right to publicly blog about her students, fellow faculty and the administration, and use vulgar language in doing so, simply because no names were given, then what is the result?

Do we now allow students to publicly blog about their teachers as long as no names are given? It would be their truth by their standards, much like Munroe. Then, teachers will blog about fellow teachers in a public forum based on their truth and definition of educational behavior and standards.

Last but not least, should we expect the administration to blog about students, or better yet, teachers? We all know there are good teachers as well as bad ones. Of course, we won't use names.

Finally, the teachers union may have an opinion on a new standard of public truth in education championed by a teacher who wished nothing more than to simply let the truth be known - Natalie Munroe.

Terry Poulton

Lower Makefield

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